I’m using Arch currently and the following issues have been present on every install of Steam I’ve had:
- Controller inputs break constantly. If I use big picture mode, the games will be in some quasi state where it both detects my controller and doesn’t.
- The menus take like 3 seconds to open.
- The right click menu in the system tray does not work 30% of the time.
- Worst of all, when I close a game, steam will not detect that it closes. Once this happens, no other page will load, no menus will open, and i have to
killall steam -s SIGKILL, since no other signal works. It’s also survived SIGKILL multiple times. How? - In game, the shift+tab menu does not work; half the buttons are unresponsive and the game will crash upon closing shift+tab
The arch wiki had nothing on this.
Flatpak and native installs have the same problem, reinstallation does nothing, steam --reset does nothing.
These issues occur across multiple games with different engines.
It’s very strange since I have a very generic system and most people seem to have great experiences.
I have almost none of those issues. CachyOS on two desktops. One is AMD CPU/Nvidia GPU, the other is Intel CPU/AMD GPU. Both KDE. I only use Steam native so far. 8bitdo Pro 2 controllers /w USB Wi-Fi 2.4Ghz dongles.
Occasionally a game hangs, but only about often as I had it happen on Windows.
The main problem I’m having is broken video playback on Store pages with their updated wide media player. Turns hardware acceleration on/off doesn’t fix it.